Bug#272334: please consider delivering docs as .tex files as well for better searchability
Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de> schrieb:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 02:09:26PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>> some of the docs, for example scrguide, are only delivered in the
>> binary package as dvi and pdf file. This makes it hard to grep the
>> docs for specific bits of information.
>
> After downloading 52 MB of sources, I found out that not even
> tetex-doc's _source_ package contains the sources to scrguide. I find
> this a bad bug and maybe a policy violation.
The documentation sources are in the tetex-src package. The upstream
tarball for tetex-base contains only compiled documentation, because
there is no general way to produce the pdf or dvi files from the tex or
dtx files. It has to be decided whether they are to produced with or
without the implementation documentation, it has to be decided whether a
makindex run is necessary (or two, for changes, or a glossary), or
bibtex, or...
With the present state of CTAN with respect to documentation, I think
Thomas Essers (upstream's) decision to provide manually compiled pdf/dvi
files is right.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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